Dublin South-Central — week of Mon, 24 May

What your Dublin South-Central TDs did this week

Mon, 24 May – 30 May 2021 · 4 TDs · 1 bill voted on · 49 questions · 1 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Annexation of Palestine

2021-05-26 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 46–87

Voted for 2 Aengus Ó Snodaigh · Bríd Smith

Voted against 1 Patrick Costello

Did not vote 3 Catherine Ardagh · Jen Cummins · Máire Devine

Aengus Ó Snodaigh — Sinn Féin 1 vote · 23 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 23 total

Social 10 questions
- 2021-05-26 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will exclude arts grants and funding for artists from means testing for the blind pension and disability allowance to bring certainty to artists with disabilities and enable them to avail of funding without fearing loss of basic supports; and her views on whether the current means testing system causes unnecessary anxiety, stress and discouragement for artists with disabilities from reaching their full potential. [28518/21]
- 2021-05-26 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will end the practice of including the income of partners or spouses in the means testing of recipients or applicants for the blind pension and disability allowance and to address the impact of the current practice on diminishing the independence of persons with disabilities. [28519/21]
- 2021-05-26 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for the blind pension that were rejected in 2020 as a result of Arts Council grants or funding putting the applicant above the means test eligibility threshold. [28520/21]
- 2021-05-26 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for the disability allowance that were rejected in 2020 as a result of Arts Council grants or funding putting the applicant above the means test eligibility threshold. [28521/21]
- 2021-05-26 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for the blind pension that were rejected in 2020 as a result of the income of a partner or spouse putting the applicant above the means test eligibility threshold. [28522/21]
- 2021-05-26 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for the disability allowance that were rejected in 2020 as a result of the income of a partner or spouse putting the applicant above the means test eligibility threshold. [28523/21]
- 2021-05-26 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection the annual administrative cost incurred to conduct means testing of blind pension and disability allowance applicants each year from 2010 to 2021. [28524/21]
- 2021-05-26 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection the annual spending on both the blind pension and the disability allowance each year from 2010 to 2021, in tabular form. [28525/21]
- 2021-05-26 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the blind pension in each of the years 2010 to 2020 and to date in 2021; and the number of applications rejected due to means testing for the same time period in tabular form. [28526/21]
- 2021-05-26 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the disability allowance in each of the years 2010 to 2020 and to date in 2021; and the number of applications rejected due to means testing for the same time period in tabular form. [28527/21]
Tourism 6 questions
- 2021-05-26 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if the easing of restrictions on 2 June 2021 contain any provisions for music and entertainment to be permitted at social gatherings, weddings or beer gardens. [28511/21]
- 2021-05-26 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will reply to an email sent to her office (details supplied) in relation to funding discrimination against artists with disabilities; the reason she has not responded in over a month; and if she will make public her views on the matters raised in the correspondence. [28512/21]
- 2021-05-26 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will meet with a person (details supplied) to discuss the matters raised in an email of 7 April 2021. [28513/21]
- 2021-05-26 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she has raised with the Minister for Social Protection the way in which the threat of losing the blind pension or disability allowance due to the inclusion of arts grants in means testing of income is preventing artists with disabilities from achieving their potential in the arts and placing them at a further disadvantage compared to artists without disabilities; if not, if she will do so; and her views on the matter. [28514/21]
- 2021-05-26 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media her views on the fact that artists with disabilities are dissuaded from applying for and accepting Arts Council grants or funding as a result of the threat to their means tested blind pension and disability allowance; and the steps she will take to correct this. [28515/21]
- 2021-05-26 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the policy of her Department to ensure artists with disabilities have full access to and participation in the funded arts and cultural life. [28516/21]
Further and Higher Education 2 questions
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the reason students from Ballyfermot College of Further Education that have spent two years on a higher national diploma advanced production and design course and want to continue onto a BA hons visual media (game design) are not eligible for the SUSI grant in order to undertake the degree course (details supplied); and if the anomaly will be addressed. [27906/21]
- 2021-05-27 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the accommodation that has been made to ensure that students of the class of 2020 that never got to finish their courses, that received calculated grades in 2020, sat the leaving certificate in 2020 and are being expected to await the first round of CAO offers in September in 2021 to know their fate in relation to their preferred choice of university course thus forcing them to compete for limited places in specialist courses such as radiography or biomedical science with the leaving certificate class of 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28916/21]
Education 2 questions
- 2021-05-27 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education if she plans to request the Teaching Council to reverse its downgrading of the level of history required for aspirant second-level teachers of history (details supplied). [28917/21]
- 2021-05-27 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education if the plans for a school (details supplied) have been finalised; the number of classrooms it will have; if the yards and associated works are part of the plans; the number of children that will be accommodated at the school; the number of staff that will be required; when a contractor will be appointed; and when the works will begin and be completed given that the school is set to open in September 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28927/21]
Housing 1 question
- 2021-05-25 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if funding or grants are available to provide financial assistance for a person (details supplied) to have a ramp installed. [28296/21]
Children 1 question
- 2021-05-26 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the policy of his Department to ensure artists with disabilities have full access to and participation in the funded arts and cultural life. [28517/21]
Transport 1 question
- 2021-05-27 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Transport the action he has taken to ensure that CIÉ fully engages with the trustees of the 1951 pension scheme before changes are made in the scheme which many in Iarnród Éireann have paid into over their lifetime of work with the company. [28940/21]

Catherine Ardagh — Fianna Fáil 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Jen Cummins — Social Democrats 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Máire Devine — Sinn Féin 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.